refuse to have my ideas assigned to me as if I were an intellectual slave
Get over it.
You made up a quote and have been spreading it here for 7 years, you need to quit claiming it as a “quote”.
When someone googles the source of the fake quote it leads to you at freerepublic, on thread after thread since 2005.
Use the actual quote if you like it but don’t rewrite it to suit you and then strive to convince us it is accurate, I almost posted it somewhere else today, but luckily I was suspicious of the source.